Obituary from Houston Home Journal (Perry, Georgia) Thursday, 29 November 1888 – pg. 3 Death of Mr. L. D. Norwood. At about ten o'clock last Saturday night Mr. Lorenzo Dow Norwood died at his residence about 3 miles west of Perry. The immediate cause of death was heart failure, the result of the gradually increasing infirmities of old age. The burial took place at Evergreen cemetery, Perry, Monday morning. In many respects Mr. Norwood was a remarkable man. He was born in Darlington District, South Carolina, on the 11th of December, 1806, consequently he would have been 82 years old on the 11th of next December. He was married twice before he was 23 years old, having married Miss Cathrine A. McLaughlin, in March 1829. He was the father of 14 children, and his other descendants are 44 grand children and 7 great grand children. Of his children, 8 were girls and 6 boys, seven of the girls and two boys being now living. Immediately after his last marriage, about 60 ...
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